Spirit Airlines
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Anonymous
| I have never flown with Spirit Airlines. We are planning a family vacation from BWI to San Juan. Would appreciate feedback on Spirit Airlines. Thanks. |
Anonymous
| The worst airline in the US. Why not take Southwest? They have a bunch of daily direct flights from BWI to San Juan. |
Anonymous
| Horrible. Just don’t. Not worth any savings |
Anonymous
| BAD decision, OP. The worst. |
Anonymous
| It's fine if you are going alone as long as you know that you get what you pay for. I would not subject the rest of my family to it, however. For my family, if we are traveling together, I want to have an enjoyable experience, and that includes the transportation. It's not worth the monetary savings, imo, to have my family deal with Spirit and being nickeled and dimed for everything. |
Anonymous
| Did it once, from BWI to Vegas. Never again. Serious delays, no customer service, and tiny seating. I’m 5”7 and even sitting up straight my knees were touching the seat in front. |
Anonymous
| From everything I hear, I would avoid Spirit. For me, I lump Spirit with Allegiant and Frontier- they’re on my personal do not fly list. I live equal distance from BWI and Dulles so I usually go with Southwest or United. |
Anonymous
| What exactly is wrong with spirit? I do not fly much but took spirit and had no issues. |
Anonymous
Ha I think I’m the opposite. I already think traveling with little ones isn’t going to be relaxing, so suck up the seats on spirit since the flight will already suck. We’ve taken it a couple times and not had problems. We are military and get free baggage so it can be a super cheap option. Make sure you’re figuring baggage cost in there OP. It doesn’t include anything. |
Anonymous
Spirit and frontier are merging. So your avoid list can be one smaller. |
Anonymous
I mean I think it’s pretty obvious that OP is probably considering it because it’s cheaper than southwest…. Most all airlines seems like a gamble these days. Spirit does kind of suck but can be a cheap way to get from point a to point b. |
Anonymous
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Fly them and other carriers all of the time. There is nothing wrong with them. They just have a different model. You are literally paying for a seat and that is it. Not a seat, a place to put your bag, not a seat that reclines, not a seat that you can board at leisure. Not anything else but a seat from point A to point B. If you understand that and accept that you will be fine. Anything beyond that you will pay for. As long as you understand that you will be fine.
They have one of, if not the newest fleets. I would not fly them long distance unless you are in the “Big Seats” first two rows. The more alcohol you buy the cheaper it is, they sell party packs. I need to take a lot of last minute trips to Atlanta and I can frequently book the night before on Spirit for 180-300 round trip. Legacy carriers want 1100-1700 for the same trip. So people say they nickel and dime you. But they are up front about it. And in my case I would rather know I may be nickeled and dimed on the front end they just royaly f’d from the get go. |
Anonymous
| We just did spirit to FLL and honestly it was fine. They do charge for every little last thing. The bummer is of you want to sit together (and be assured to do so) to get specific seat assignments it’s an extra like 30-40 dollars per person |
Anonymous
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"The more alcohol you buy the cheaper it is, they sell party packs."
OP, there's your answer on why you shouldn't fly. |
Anonymous
Why shouldn’t that be the case? You get a discount at Costco by buying in bulk, you get cheaper flights via group rates. |